NationStates Jolt Archive

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/11/AR2006121100637.html


In virginia.

"ZOMG! YOU SCREWED A 17 YEAR OLD! NO NORMAL LIFE FOR YOU!!!"

Sorry, I just hate these stupid laws that don't fix anything.

First they came for the sex offenders
and I did not speak out
because I was not a sex offender.
Then they came for the methamphetamine manufacturers
and I did not speak out
because I was not a methamphetamine manufacturer.
Then they came for the serial killers
and I did not speak out
because I was not a serial killer.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.


Kind of fucks that old poem up completely, doesn't it?

First they came for the sex offenders
and I did not speak out
because I was not a sex offender.
Then they came for the methamphetamine manufacturers
and I did not speak out
because I was not a methamphetamine manufacturer.
Then they came for the serial killers
and I did not speak out
because I was not a serial killer.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.


Kind of fucks that old poem up completely, doesn't it?

Yeah. Your country must really be fucked up if the only people in it are supporters of a corrupt regime, sex offenders, meth manufacturers, and serial killers. Plus you.

I would be more comfortable with this legislation if the term "Sex Offender" somehow distinguished between child molesters and two people a couple years apart in age that had consensual sex.

Also:

"We are certainly going to put public safety ahead of these civil liberties concerns,"

..Is anyone else really, really, REALLY bothered by that sentence?

Yeah. Your country must really be fucked up if the only people in it are supporters of a corrupt regime, sex offenders, meth manufacturers, and serial killers. Plus you.

Meh, I was only having some fun. And besides, it bumped your thread.

Meh, I was only having some fun. And besides, it bumped your thread.

I know. It was pretty funny.

It's a pretty pathetic law, that's for certain.

Here's the thing about the way we treat sex offenders in this country--if we're going to continue to restrict their freedoms once they've served their sentences, then we need to just keep them in jail for life without parole and be done with it. Sex offenders get singled out among all other felons for this kind of treatment--they have to self-identify in their neightborhoods, and they have to avoid living in particular neighborhoods (to the point where in some places, they're down to living in compounds in the woods).

Personally, if you rape a child, I'd just as soon you never get out of jail. But if we're not going to do that, then we need to give them a second chance once they're out of jail.

"We are certainly going to put public safety ahead of these civil liberties concerns,"

..Is anyone else really, really, REALLY bothered by that sentence?

Yes, indeed. I think it's the "certainly" that makes it particularly bad.

I've always thought these special restrictions on sex offenders are rather stupid. If we really believe that someone can't go within 100 feet of a child without leaping upon them and raping them, then why the heck did we let that person out of prison?

"We are certainly going to put public safety ahead of these civil liberties concerns,"

..Is anyone else really, really, REALLY bothered by that sentence?

*Sh-ts self*

Yes.

"We are certainly going to put public safety ahead of these civil liberties concerns,"

..Is anyone else really, really, REALLY bothered by that sentence?

no. step forward.

As if this kind of thing will ever being enforced in any efficient way regardless. Otherwise I really don't care if sexual predators are being monitored online. It is not as if everyone isn't watched while on the internet anyway.

no. step forward.
lets go by slippery slope then.

First sex offenders.
Then those who have commited any crime whatsoever.
Next everyone so they'll know if they've been signing up for illegal porn sites or terrorist mailing lists.

lets go by slippery slope then.

First sex offenders.
Then those who have commited any crime whatsoever.
Next everyone so they'll know if they've been signing up for illegal porn sites or terrorist mailing lists.

i dont believe we have met.
hello i am gorias. i believe in monitoring hardcore criminals. and my favourite colour is blue.

There seems to be a problem with the term "sex offender". A friend of mine had to sign the sex offendors register because he got drunk and ran naked down the high street at 3am. How the hell can he possibly be seen as comparable to a rapist or child molestor?

There seems to be a problem with the term "sex offender". A friend of mine had to sign the sex offendors register because he got drunk and ran naked down the high street at 3am. How the hell can he possibly be seen as comparable to a rapist or child molestor?

He can't, by any reasonable standard, but our sexual offense laws are not what one would call reasonable.

no. step forward.

Yes. Shame we can't see the cliff side a short jog ahead.